My kindergarten teacher sent me home with a note on my report card that said I talked too much. I am pretty sure very few of the teachers and colleagues I’ve had in the twenty years since would agree.
I spent the first half of college pretending to major in computer science, mostly against my will, while taking as many philosophy and creative writing classes as I could cram into my schedule without taking an overload. I spent the second half of my time in college (and graduate school) working for the student newspaper. I learned the value of getting to the point – whether that’s writing concisely or puzzling out what someone’s really getting at. I learned that you should write the truth whenever possible, even when people don’t like it, and that truth is the greatest defense when accused of libel.
I believe that the unexamined life is not worth living, that the only true wisdom is accepting that I cannot know everything, and that exposing the entire truth can be dangerous. I use these principles to guide my life as well as what I write here.
I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I hold a bachelor’s degree in communications and an MBA. My hobbies include reading far too much, keeping (and plowing through) very long to-do lists, and obsessively checking weather.com in the spring and summer.
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